This was fixed upstream, by allowing opening the shield on any printable character keypress, and entering that character into the password field, so you can just type your password while the shield is still shown / moving away.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686740 According to git, this change was first released in 3.7.92. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #686740 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686740 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049645 Title: missing option to disable gnome-shell lock screen shield To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1049645/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
